Winner of Young Scientist Award at E-MRS - Sow Wan Ting

We would like to extend our warmest congratulations to Ms Sow Wan Ting , who is a PhD student of Assistant Professor Ng Kee Woei, for winning the “Young Scientist Award” at the E-MRS 2015 Spring Meeting. The award was given based on her paper, entitled “An in-vitro Examination of Human Hair Keratin Nanofibrous Matrices as an Alternative Biomaterial for Tissue Regeneration” and in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the E-MRS 2015 Spring Meeting, Symposium X, “Nanomedicine advancing from Bench-to-Bedside: the Role of Materials”. 

The European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) is a global professional society which encourages scientists, engineers and research managers to exchange information on functional materials on an interdisciplinary platform. It also recognizes professional and technical excellence by promoting awards for achievement from student to senior scientist level. The E-MRS Spring Meeting, which is organized every year, is widely recognized as the meeting with the highest international significance and is the greatest of its kind in Europe. 

The European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Award programme, which presents the Young Scientist Award, strives to acknowledge outstanding young scientists who contribute to the progress of materials research. It also recognizes their exciting and profound accomplishments in materials research.